Transform Your WordPress Forms: 2 Simple Customization Techniques for Stunning Results

A basic and unattractive WordPress form can undermine even the most beautifully designed website, making it seem incomplete and out of sync. This can lead to visitors feeling hesitant to fill it out if it doesn’t align with the overall aesthetic of your site.

Through our experience managing a WordPress blog, we have discovered that well-crafted and branded forms can significantly enhance user engagement.

In fact, when we aligned our forms with our website’s color scheme and design, we experienced a substantial boost in form submissions.

In this guide, we will share two straightforward yet effective methods to customize and enhance the appearance of your WordPress forms, ensuring they not only look appealing but also function more effectively. 🚀

The Importance of Customizing and Styling Your WordPress Forms

When you integrate a form into your WordPress site using a plugin, you will typically find that its design is quite basic and unremarkable.

For instance, if you implement a registration form using a user-registration plugin, you may notice that its design lacks excitement. This can fail to engage your visitors and may even deter them from completing the form.

By customizing your forms, you can enhance their visual appeal by ensuring they are consistent with your WordPress theme and branding.

Well-designed WordPress forms can significantly boost conversion rates, as they are more user-friendly and encourage more visitors to complete them.

Customized forms can enhance your brand visibility. For example, incorporating your logo and brand colors can make your forms more memorable and effective.

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to easily customize and style your WordPress forms with two straightforward methods. You can use the quick links below to navigate to your preferred method:

• Method 1: Customize and Style WordPress Forms Using WPForms (No Coding Required)
• Method 2: Style WordPress Forms Using CSS (Advanced Customization Techniques)
• Bonus Tip 🧑‍💻: Simple Steps to Create Custom Website Pages

Let’s dive in!

Method 1: Customize and Style WordPress Forms Using WPForms (No Coding Required)

With WPForms, you can effortlessly customize and style your WordPress forms. It is the leading contact form plugin for WordPress, trusted by over 6 million websites.

We personally use WPForms for various types of forms, and you can find more information about the plugin in our comprehensive WPForms review.

WPForms features an intuitive drag-and-drop builder, allowing you to effortlessly create any type of form. It also includes a comprehensive library of over 2,000 pre-designed themes and built-in customization options that require no coding skills.

Additionally, it offers AI tools that assist you in crafting custom forms from scratch with a simple prompt, enabling you to generate various field options such as dropdowns, radio buttons, or checkboxes.

To get started, install and activate the WPForms plugin. For detailed guidance, refer to our step-by-step tutorial on installing a WordPress plugin.

After activation, navigate to the WPForms » Settings page in the WordPress admin sidebar to input your license key.

You can locate this information in your account on the WPForms website.

Once you’ve completed that, go to the WPForms » Add New section from your WordPress dashboard.

This will direct you to the ‘Select a Template’ page, where you can begin by naming your form. Following that, choose any form template you prefer and click the ‘Use Template’ button below it.

In this tutorial, we will create and integrate a simple contact form into our website.

This will open the template in the WPForms form builder, where you can preview the form on the right and find form fields in the left column.

You can easily drag and drop any desired form field into the form, as well as rearrange or remove fields as needed.

For comprehensive guidance, refer to our tutorial on creating a contact form in WordPress.

Once you finish designing your form, click the ‘Save’ button at the top to exit the form builder.

Next, navigate to the WPForms Settings page in the WordPress dashboard and check the ‘Use Modern Markup’ option. If you skip this step, the WPForms customization settings will not be accessible in the block editor.

Remember to click the ‘Save Changes’ button to apply your settings.

Now, open the page or post where you want to add the newly created form.

Click the add block ‘+’ button in the top left corner to access the block menu and insert the WPForms block.

After that, simply choose the form you want to add to your site from the dropdown menu within the block.

After adding your form, it’s time to enhance its appearance and style.

To begin, open the block panel located on the right side of your screen and navigate to the ‘Themes’ section.

Here, you can choose from over 40 beautifully designed themes to instantly elevate the look of your form.

Next, scroll down to the ‘Field Styles’ section for additional customization options.

You can adjust the size of your form fields using the dropdown menu and customize their border size and radius.

Additionally, you can modify the background, text, and border colors of the form fields with the color picker tool.

Utilize your brand’s signature colors or other colors that match your WordPress blog for a cohesive and attractive form.

Once you’ve made these changes, scroll down to the ‘Label Styles’ section to select the font size for your labels from the dropdown menu.

You can also change the font color for field labels, sub-labels, and error messages displayed in your form.

To customize the button within your form, navigate to the ‘Button Styles’ section and choose its size from the dropdown menu.

You can customize the submit button of your form by adjusting the border radius and changing the background and text colors.

After completing your form customization, click the ‘Update’ or ‘Publish’ button at the top to save your changes.

Now, visit your WordPress site to see the newly styled form in action.

Method 2: Advanced Customization of WordPress Forms Using CSS

If you prefer not to use the built-in customization options from WPForms or wish to implement unique styles with CSS, you can add a custom CSS snippet.

Start by creating a form with WPForms, the leading form builder available today.

WPForms features a user-friendly drag-and-drop builder and offers over 2,000 templates to help you quickly design various forms, including contact forms, file upload forms, registration forms, RSVP forms, and more!

For step-by-step guidance, check out our tutorial on creating a contact form in WordPress or refer to Method 1.

Once your form is created, use WPCode to customize it. This is the top WordPress code snippets plugin, providing the easiest and safest way to add CSS for styling your WordPress form.

Many of our business websites utilize WPCode to efficiently add and manage custom code snippets, and it has proven to be highly effective. Check out our comprehensive WPCode review for more information about this tool.

To get started, you need to install and activate the WPCode plugin. For step-by-step guidance, refer to our beginner’s guide on installing a WordPress plugin.

After activation, navigate to the Code Snippets » + Add Snippet section in your WordPress dashboard.

Once there, simply click the ‘Use Snippet’ button located under the ‘Add Your Custom Code (New Snippet)’ option.

This action will direct you to the ‘Create Custom Snippet’ page, where you can begin by entering a name for your code snippet.

Next, choose the ‘CSS Snippet’ option from the dropdown menu in the upper right corner of the screen.

Then, copy and paste the following code into the ‘Code Preview’ box:

#wpforms-0000 .wpforms-form { background-color: #ADD8E6 !important; font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif !important; padding: 20px 15px !important; border: 3px solid #666 !important; border-radius: 20px !important;
}

To begin, replace the default shortcode at the top with the shortcode of the specific form you wish to customize.

To find this, navigate to the WPForms » All Forms section in your WordPress dashboard and copy the WPForms ID of the form you want to style.

Next, paste the form’s ID number next to the wpforms- line in the code. This ensures that the code applies only to that particular form.

You can easily modify the hex code for the background color, choose your preferred font family, and adjust the padding and border radius by editing the code snippet.

After making your changes, scroll down to the ‘Insertion’ section and select the ‘Auto Insert’ option.

The code will be automatically activated on your site once you enable it.

Then, return to the top of the page and switch the toggle to ‘Active’.

Finally, click the ‘Save Snippet’ button to save your customizations.

Your WordPress form will now be automatically styled according to the CSS snippet, and you can view the results.

If you haven’t yet added the form to your website, start by opening a page or post in the block editor.

Once you’re there, click the ‘+’ button in the top left corner to access the block menu and insert the WPForms block.

Next, choose the form you customized using the CSS snippet from the dropdown menu available in the block.

Finally, click the ‘Update’ or ‘Publish’ button to save your changes.

Now, visit your WordPress site to see your customized form in action.

Bonus Tip 🧑‍💻: How to Effortlessly Create Custom Website Pages

Customizing WordPress forms is just one way to enhance your site’s appeal. You can also design fully personalized website pages using SeedProd.

SeedProd is the top WordPress page builder plugin available, enabling you to create stunning pages without any coding skills.

Many of our partner brands have built their entire websites with SeedProd. It’s a robust drag-and-drop builder that offers more than just landing pages! Discover more about this tool in our comprehensive SeedProd review.

SeedProd features pre-designed templates and site kits, user-friendly customization options, color schemes, and advanced page blocks. Additionally, you can seamlessly embed your WPForms forms within the SeedProd editor.

For more information, check out our comprehensive tutorial on creating a landing page in WordPress.

We hope this article has helped you learn how to customize and enhance your WordPress forms. You might also be interested in our tutorial on adding a coupon code field to WordPress forms, as well as our comparison of WPForms, Gravity Forms, and Formidable Forms.

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